PIKEVILLE — Adam Pate intends to play the game of baseball until he’s at least 40 years of age. The recreational and high school stages certainly have not discouraged that ambition. And the versatile Charles B. Aycock High senior’s …
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US Youth Soccer’s National League returns to Wilson
The soccer fields at Gillette Athletic Complex continue their busy month this weekend, with a boost from the playing surfaces at Fike High and Barton College Athletic Complex, as US Youth Soccer’s National League returns for the third time in …
Who will survive?
Hunt, Cleveland square off Friday in third round to settle 'toughest pod'When the N.C. High School Athletic Association released its football playoff brackets nearly three weeks ago, speculation immediately surfaced that the 3-AA East pod was perhaps the toughest of any of the 32 pods. There were three unbeaten teams out …
Middle school result
Darden finishes unbeaten year with 34-0 rout of Speight The Darden football team seized sole possession of the Wilson County championship and shared the Tricounties Athletics Conference championship following a 34-0 romp over Speight last week at …
Barton bound
Strickland follows in family footstepsSTANHOPE — The decision to choose Barton College was easy for Southern Nash senior tennis player Casey Strickland. “My mother and brother and aunts and uncles and cousins all went there,” she said with a smile. “Barton, …
Simmons’ Ivy League dream for real
PIKEVILLE — Tara Simmons’ dream has long been to attend college and continue her spectacular golf career in the Ivy League. And as she noted during Wednesday afternoon’s informal ceremony in the Charles B. Aycock High media center, …
Injuries temper Bulldogs’ 2-0 start to season
After winning its first two games of the season, the Barton College men’s basketball team, ranked No. 24 in the NABC Division II preseason poll, continues its busy week by welcoming Wingate University into Wilson Gym tonight. Despite handling …
Knights stumble in Sharpe’s debut
Knights stumble in Sharpe’s debut RALEIGH — Marvin Sharpe’s debut as Greenfield School varsity girls basketball coach wasn’t one to remember as the Knights started the season with a 49-18 loss at Ravenscroft School. …
Knights rip Ravenscroft 74-57 in season opener
Area roundupRALEIGH — Greenfield School wasted little time igniting its varsity boys basketball season as the Knights roared to a 16-3 first-quarter lead en route to a season-opening 74-57 win at Ravenscroft School on Wednesday night. “We came out …
Area calendar Nov. 15-16
Today SFlbCollege Men’s Basketball Wingate at Barton, 7:30 p.m. High School Varsity Boys Basketball Statesville Christian at Community Christian, 7:30 p.m. High School Varsity Girls Basketball Statesville Christian at Commuity Christian, 6 …
Thomas & Farris Attorneys Student-Athlete of the Week: Markus Hendrix
Senior Markus Hendrix was right in the middle of his Hunt High varsity football team’s win in the second round of the state 3-AA playoffs last week, making him this week’s Thomas & Farris Attorneys Student-Athlete of the Week. …
County to consider health board oversight
UNC expert to advise county commissioners on human services board consolidationA UNC School of Government expert is coming to Wilson County early next month to meet with the Wilson County Board of Commissioners, county Department of Social Services board and the county Board of Health.
That daylong meeting will give county …
Two charged in fatal Wilson shooting
Edgecombe County men arrested in connection with Oct. 24 shooting deathPolice have arrested the second suspect and an alleged accomplice in a Raleigh man’s Oct. 24 killing in a car outside a Wilson apartment building.
Wilson police and U.S. Marshals Service agents caught 25-year-old Jamaal Jemel Hilliard and …
